I don’t seem to have a lot to say lately. Mostly I’ve been working on the new jewellery website, and that’s a fuck of a lot of work.
First I tried using a shopping cart page but it looked too commercial, not like something personal. I played around with that one for weeks and even though I didn’t like the look of it that much – although I spent a lot of time with a design, in the end it just wouldn’t do all the things I wanted it to do.
So then I spent another couple of weeks designing the site in a wordpress format. I found a shopping cart plugin that worked perfectly.
Then? Then I checked the site in Firefox and it was totally screwed. Fucking Firefox.
So then I had to redesign all over again and look (at the beginning) to see whether the site worked in IE and Firefox. I finally came up with something but it’s not as nice as my first one so of course I don’t like it as much.
I’ve now started uploading some of the jewellery pictures. But of course any old pictures I had are no good because things need to be a certain size. So that means taking pictures all over again.
This has been a big pain in the ass. And I also downloaded some add-ons to that shopping cart plugin. I had to buy the add-ons but, guess what? They didn’t work. And when I contacted the guy, he wouldn’t get back to me except for the first time to say, oh you probably have a server issue. Ya right, server issue. Everything else works but all of a sudden when I’ve paid for something, there’s a server issue.
So right now I’m in the middle of a paypal dispute to try to get my money back.
That’s just some of the stuff I’m up to. I’ve put so much work into that website that I’m already sick of it. And yet if I ever want to sell anything, I’ve got to get a fuck of a lot more up there than 10 things.
Y’see, that’s why I’m not blogging that much. Now what’s your excuse?
Janice
Micheal Kalso
Stopcallers
Robin
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So that’s what you’ve been up too. When will the site be ready for a sneak peek?
As for my excuse, other than quitting. I’ve been playing a lot of Halo 3 lately
Lyndon, last night was the first night that I took a break from the website, and the more I think of it, maybe I’ll do that until the weekend. Maybe I’ll actually make some jewellery instead.
It’ll probably take a couple more weeks if I want to be realistic and take all those photos and upload and link and etc.
I’m having trouble thinking of things to write in my blog (as you’ve probably noticed…), and because I haven’t managed to do the redesign I’ve planned for ages for my X-Files site, I took the XF site down. (Accidentally deleting all the hard work I had done for the redesign really bums me out.) Oh yeah, I also have an on-going redesign for my blog and it needs only the final tweaks.
I’m currently doing a redesign for my aunt’s site, and because that’s not my own site (and it’s paid work) I can’t procrastinate which is a good thing I suppose.
I’m just so tired all the time!
I hope I can take the Christmas week off of work so I might be able to get some energy back.
I’m with you, Minna. While my site has only ever been like a journal, I keep thinking ‘WTF is there to write? Nothing interesting is happening and I feel so busy that no thoughts or ideas come to mind that aren’t about my boring life.